Apple products made with child labor – internal report Published time: January 26, 2013 11:21 Edited time: January 26, 2013 15:21 Employees work at a Foxconn factory in Wuhan, Hubei province (Reuters) Apple Inc. used child labor in the making of its products by employing 106 underage workers across 11 facilitates in 2012, an internal audit revealed. According to a report, the company also discovered wage problems and forced pregnancy tests. Apple’s annual ‘Supplier Responsibility’ report, which includes nearly 400 audits, 72 per cent more than in 2011, reviewed sites where over 1.5 million workers make some of the world’s leading products, including iPhone and iPad. In addition to 106 underage children that were employed, the report discovered 70 more that either left or passed the age of 16 by the time of the audit. Seventy-four of 106 underage individuals were employed by a single Chinese manufacturer, Guangdong Real Faith Pingzhou Electronics, responsible for…Read More

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In my previous blog which was a book review of Stop the Traffik, I mentioned that slavery and trafficking are huge issues in the world today. As it turns out, chocolate is based on 90% slave labour. All of the big brands like Cadbury’s, Nestle, Hershey’s and others all buy cocoa from places like the Ivory Coast in Africa where it is grown on…Read More

Hershey sued over alleged African child slave labor article:336249:12::0 By Brett Wilkins Nov 5, 2012 in World A Louisiana public pension fund is suing confectionery giant Hershey Co. over the company's alleged use of cocoa sourced from West African plantations using child slave labor. The Los Angeles Times reports that the Louisiana…Read More